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Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: £20.00£15.29In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which... -
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukacs 9780850361971
RRP: £20.00£17.84Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. "When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order," Marx declares, "it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for... -
Gaudi Maria Antonietta Crippa 9783836560283
RRP: £15.00£9.76From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical... -
Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground by David Bownes
RRP: £30.00£25.85An exploration of the abandoned tributaries of London's vast and vital transportation network through breathtaking images and unexpected storiesHidden London is a lavishly illustrated history of disused and repurposed London Underground spaces. It... -
The Edwardian House Explained: A Brief History of British Architecture from 1900-1914 Trevor Yorke 9781853069826
RRP: £8.99£7.40This easy-reference guide is packed with information and detailed illustrations, explaining everything you need to know about houses and properties from the Edwardian Age. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, author Trevor Yorke takes the... -
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £10.00£6.71A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our... -
Gaudi. The Complete Works by Rainer Zerbst
RRP: £50.00£44.45The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of... -
The Eiffel Tower by Bertrand Lemoine 9783836584418
RRP: £30.00£23.35"The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn't made, somehow, in the Tower's name." - Roland Barthes When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought... -
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
RRP: £19.99£14.35This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition,... -
The Secret Terrorists: (the responsables of the Assassination of Lincoln, the Sinking of Titanic, the world trade center and more with good content information) by Bill Hughes
RRP: £14.99£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087931364Author Bill HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm -
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by Hans Werner Holzwarth
RRP: £20.00£15.35Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for... -
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World Jonathan Glancey 9781802791013
RRP: £25.00£14.26Explore over 500 masterpieces of modern architecture in this celebration of the most iconic buildings in the world. Written by acclaimed architecture expert Jonathan Glancey, Modern Architecture is a beautifully illustrated guide to the key styles,... -
Niemeyer Philip Jodidio 9783836536226
RRP: £15.00£11.36Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines from Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria, to his homeland masterpiece... -
Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses, Classic format by Dominic Bradbury 9781838663391
RRP: £49.95£39.34The most complete in-depth survey of global Mid-Century Modern homes ever published - more than 400 stunning homes from 40 countries, designed by more than 290 of the world's greatest architects The love of Mid-Century style is at an all-time high, with... -
A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis by Sam Roberts
RRP: £18.99£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620409800Author Sam RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 578g -
Studio Lives: Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain by Louise Campbell 9781848223134
RRP: £35.00£27.08By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture - occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them... -
Le Corbusier by Jean-Louis Cohen
RRP: £15.00£10.96Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale... -
Los Angeles Modernism Revisited - Houses by Neutra, Schindler, Ain and Contemporaries David Schreyer 9783038601616
RRP: £50.00£33.35Two Austrian-born designers have left their indelible mark on California's residential architecture of the 1930s to 1960s: Richard Neutra (1892-1970) and Rudolph M. Schindler (1887-1953) combined modern form and inventive construction with new materials... -
Modernist Escapes: An Architectural Travel Guide by Stefi Orazi
RRP: £29.99£28.84Modernist fans will want to dive right into the pages of this guide to remarkable buildings designed by famous architects from Alvar Aalto to Charlie Zehnder. Featuring over 130 unique structures that span the globe, this book covers the full spectrum of... -
The Edwardians and their Houses: The New Life of Old England by Timothy Brittain-Catlin 9781848222687
RRP: £45.00£35.00Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening,... -
London Art Deco Arnold Schwartzman 9780957148321
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition, after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid than the French or that of the United States, Great Britain s buildings reflected the country s... -
Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Adam Sharr
RRP: £8.99£6.45Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental... -
Gaudi by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial... -
Modern House by Jonathan Bell
RRP: £29.95£20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908967725Author Jonathan BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Artifice PressPublisher Artifice Press -
Modern Architecture A-Z by TASCHEN
RRP: £20.00£15.29With more than 280 entries, this architectural A-Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering... -
How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in the Architecture of the Modern Era by Will Jones
RRP: £12.99£9.79An essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture. How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understanding the architecture of the modern era. This handy book takes you on a guided tour of modern... -
Libraries of the World by Gestalten
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040241Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
1920s Berlin by Rainer Metzger
RRP: £15.00£11.96It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Between the... -
A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott
RRP: £10.99£7.47From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-LandA Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by John Betjeman's 1973 documentary Metro-Land and the... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: £25.00£19.99The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
Bauhaus. Updated Edition by Magdalena Droste
RRP: £50.00£44.45In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: £9.99£7.11Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of... -
Neutra by Barbara Lamprecht
RRP: £15.00£11.36In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm trees, and... -
20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth Century by John Pardey 9781848223530
RRP: £45.00£34.00Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, it offers a fascinating... -
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Heaven on Earth by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Exquisite ... A wonderment of an essay about a wonderment of a building' Paul Preston Its scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. What seduces our attention... -
Guide To The Architecture Of London by Edward Jones
RRP: £25.00£17.38'The definitive guide to London's architecture' INDEPENDENT London has an unrivalled richness of architecture, from its squares and houses to its palaces and churches. This is the only guide to cover all of London's building history, from its Roman... -
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective by Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Roessler
RRP: £30.00£29.51Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that... -
50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know by Josef Strasser
RRP: £14.99£11.35Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus School had an enormous impact on the arts and everyday life. Fifty of the most representative pieces of Bauhaus art and design are presented here in illuminating and engrossing two-page spreads. This book... -
Mackintosh Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836561600
RRP: £15.00£9.76Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his hometown of Glasgow during his lifetime, his bold new... -
Saarinen by Pierluigi Serraino
RRP: £15.00£14.22The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design. Among Saarinen's...